Vote Now! Your Favorite Computer Hardware of 2001

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Belegost

Belegost

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Feb 20, 2001
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Don't feel too bad Dougcio, I don't have anything on there either.
I do have a nice Yamaha burner though, but these people are burner snobs. :p
 
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Martin

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I only have the LiteOn 24/10/40burner (to be installed tomorrow) from that list, but I voted for the Radeon 8500DV....what an amazing card!
 
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WilsonTung

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The Pentium 4 gets my vote. It is a highly innovative processor with superior thermal management, impressive scalability, and quality packaging. It would be even better if it had SMT enabled (5-10% of the transistors on the P4 die apparently do nothing right now) and the price tag was lower.

Before you guys flame me too much, I thought the AMD Athlon Thunderbird was the best HW release of 2000.
 
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AGodspeed

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Before you guys flame me too much, I thought the AMD Athlon Thunderbird was the best HW release of 2000.

The AMD Athlon XP processor is included in the poll, so that differs from the T-bird obviously.
 
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NFG

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still have to go with my intellimouse explorer..2 years running and she still takes the cake..totally indespensible.
 
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erub

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I'm with pillage2001 :)

Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200!!!! $99!! Thank you Best Buy, and more importantly, AT Hot Deals :)
 
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AGodspeed

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Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200!!!! $99!! Thank you Best Buy, and more importantly, AT Hot Deals :)

Damn, I wish I had jumped on that deal. :disgust:
 
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AGodspeed

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It would be even better if it had SMT enabled (5-10% of the transistors on the P4 die apparently do nothing right now) and the price tag was lower.

You're talking about Hyper Threading, aren't you?
 
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AGodspeed

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To the 'competing' P4, I'm pretty sure. The P4 platfrom costs only a few bucks more clock-for-clock, offering a much better long-term upgrade ability.

Pentium 4's fair very poorly against Athlon XP's at the same clock speed. Otherwise AMD probably would have released Hammer by now. ;)
 
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MrHelpful

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Intel Pentium IV 1.6GHz - $173
ECS P4S5A - $80
Crucial PC2100 256MB - $62

Total - $315

AMD Athlon XP 1600+ retail - $142
ECS K7S5A - $57
Crucial PC2100 256MB - $62

Total - $261

And wait! Look at this.

Doesn't seem like the Pentium IV is quite there. And don't give me that crap about how 3D gaming isn't everything - the majority of people who have these kinds of systems and actually know worth a damn about them do spend most of their processing power on FPSes or whatever.

;) Merry Christmas.
 
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